McCulloch

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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Background
 Ruling
 Significance/Precedence
  • They debated over whether or not the state of Maryland had the power
to tax the 2nd bank of the U.S.
  • Whether Congress had the power to make a bank
  • James McCulloch issued bank notes on paper not stamped and properly taxed
  • McCulloch won the case
  • Not only nulified to the case Maryland's bank tax law that federal government supremacy over other states
  • The bank war 1832-1833
  • Affirmed the principle of the federal government supremacy over state goverment
  • Marshall, being a federalist, wanted to keep a strong central government and gave the states less power